汇集多种元素的小众书 -《美杜莎的面具》
书名：《Mask of Medusa》
中文名：《美杜莎的面具》
作者：John Hejduk
发行时间：1985年
John Hejduk, Dean cf the School of Architecture at The Cooper Union in New York since 1975, is an inspiring teacher, an internationally known architect, and an artist and poet of great originality
His collected works from thirty-six productive years are here assembled for the first time in one massive volume. The cross-referenced time frames into which the book is divided evoke places where Hejduk‘s works were produced and events that inspired him.
Mask of Medusa is both a kind of pedagogical text probing the nature and limits of architectural programs, and a gallery of designs and projects often bordering on the enigmatic. Hejduk’s own voice is a guide through the maze, revealing his ideas about architecture‘s relationship to socio-cultural currents and unfolding new perspectives for the imagination. Among the sixty-five documented projects ar his well-known Diamond and Texas Houses, the Bye House and Wall House l, and such previously unpublished works as the Piano House, the P.S.47BX1936 House and the New Town for the New Orthodox.
Daniel Libeskind
John Hejduk，自1975年起任纽约库珀联盟建筑学院院长，是一位鼓舞人心的教师、国际知名的建筑师，也是一位极具创意的艺术家和诗人。
他收集的36个作品首次在这里大规模组装。这本书所划分的交叉引用的时间框架，唤起了Hejduk作品的创作的灵感。
《美杜莎的面具》既是一种探索建筑项目和局限性的教学文本，也是一个经常与神秘建筑接轨的设计和项目的素材。Hejduk的声音是穿过迷宫的向导，揭示了他对建筑与社会文化潮流的关系的想法，并为想象展现了新的视角。在65个有记录的项目中，有著名的Diamond和Texas Houses、the Bye House和Wall House L，以及之前未出版的Piano House、P.S.47BX1936House和he New Town for the New Orthodox.
For the first time, and in a beautifully designed volume, the collected workprojects, drawings, essays, and poemsof one of America's foremost architects, architectural thinkers, and educators is brought together.
Hejduk, an intellectual descendant of the heroic period of modern architecture, has consistently used and maneuvered the modernist vocabulary, forcing it, in the design process, to reflect his personal poetic vision. Sections, plans, and axonometrics are complemented with rough or thumbnail sketches showing their germination. These beautiful drawings take on a narrative strength when grouped together and serve to illuminate Hejduk's architectonic thoughts. Also integrated within the book are his site-specific sculptures, like the Berlin Masque, and watercolors from the Italian Sketches. Highly recommended.
Den nis L. Dollens, "SITES," New York
这是第一次，在一本设计精美的书中，美国最著名的建筑师、建筑思想家和教育家之一的作品集、绘画、散文和诗歌被汇集在一起。
Hejduk是现代建筑英雄时期的知识分子后裔，在设计过程中不断地运用现代主义词汇，反映出自己的诗意意境。剖面图、平面图和轴测图都辅以草图或缩略图。这些图画在组合在一起时具有叙事的力量，用来阐明Hejduk的建筑思想。书中还融合了他在特定地点的描绘， 例如Berlin Masque, 以及意大利草图的水彩画。强烈推荐。
--Den nis L. Dollens，“SITES”，纽约
SOURCE：《Mask of Medusa》
海杜克的建筑就像他的诗一样关注点尺度很小，没有宏大叙事却诗意磅礴，因为它承载了现实的深度。亚伯拉罕说：“你的图画和你的言语，必须像刀削出来的铅笔一般锋利”，他的老师海杜克做到了，他总独具慧眼以思想者和诗人的风采去审视建筑，建筑在他笔下不仅是实体，还是思想的再现，他巧妙运用洗练的隐喻和生动的diagram带你走近理想中的建筑，充满表现力度、思想深度、严谨手法和敏锐洞察力，因为他注重的不是设计作品的物化，而是设计推敲过程本身。
在这本《美杜莎面具》中海杜克希望在个人性与集体性之间寻找关系，通过观察者与被观察者的窥探方式重新定义自我和建筑，建构出自己的面具，所以读此书就是和海杜克的深沉激越极具创造性的建筑学愿景对话。
SOURCE：《Mask of Medusa》
非常非常有意思了，可以很明显的感觉到那种从架上绘画到文学空间的转型，不过还是更喜欢早期的一些探索，后面社会契约精神并不能感同身受。作为一个“educator”（褒义），有没有真的融合布扎学派和包豪斯不敢说，但是启发性实在太强了。
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